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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2271980, member: 39&quot;]Not at all. It&#039;s just that it was considered too close, design and size wise, to the 1 DM coin. Was a one-year issue, not many had been made, so it simply became worthless 7 years later. Guess it would be possible to do what the US did and retroactively make it legal tender again, or redeemable these days, but as I wrote before, I don&#039;t have a problem with (generously) limited redemption periods anyway. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, that is why in Germany it makes sense to differentiate - Fed. Rep. money that has lost its legal tender status is still redeemable. See <a href="http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Standardartikel/Tasks/Cash_management/free_exchange_dm_euro.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Standardartikel/Tasks/Cash_management/free_exchange_dm_euro.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>; guess what you mean is the &quot;50 Mark BdL note II (green), issued in 1948&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Money from &quot;other German countries&quot; (Holy Roman Empire, Deutsches Reich, GDR, etc.) is not affected by that redemption policy. But again, none of these Federal Republic pieces is an &quot;oldest&quot; coin, hehe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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